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band irrorated with silver; fringe yellow with dark patch at apex and vein 3; hindwing similar; a white 
black edged cellspot. Recorded only from Ceylon. 
M. elataria Walk. (22 e). Fore wing yellow with dense crimson dusting; a brown costal streak, an ob- clataria. 
lique brown fascia from lower angle of cell to termen at vein 3, and a narrow brown terminal band, 
all irrorated with silvery scales; a small yellowish white lunule at end of cell edged with brown; traces of the 
usual lines in crimson across wing; a row of small white subterminal spots edged with brown; fringe yellow, 
brown at apex and vein 3; hindwing similar, without the oblique brown bar. Ceylon, Singapore, Borneo, Java. 
M. albinellus Hmps. (22 e). Forewing pure white; two subbasal and two postmedian black dots albinellus. 
on costa; an oblique blackish fascia suffused with silvery from subcostal vein before middle to inner margin 
before tornus, with some crimson scales on its upper edge; a crimson cell dot and a postmedian point in 
cell fold; terminal area yellow with crimson points on its inner edge and a blackish terminal band suf¬ 
fused with silvery, bent inwards to costa and leaving the apex yellow; hindwing similar; a small crim¬ 
son cell-spot and another below it on inner margin; a crimson outer line below middle. Ceylon. A very minute 
species. 
M. croceicincta Hmps. Forewing deep purple red slightly dusted with silvery scales; the lines dark; croceicinda. 
the inner curved, obscure; the outer plainer, excurvecl from costa to vein 4, then incurved and slightly waved; 
a small white costal mark at the origin of each; fringe deep orange; hindwing similar; in the $ the white 
costal marks are wanting. Ceylon. 
M. costisecta spec. nov. (24 a). Forewing greyish fawn colour, slightly powdered with shining whitish costisecta. 
scales; costal edge bright ferruginous, cut by the oblicpie black strigae, which form the commencement of the 
lines; near apex the ferruginous streak becomes subcostal and the edge with its fringe is pale yellow with 
two black spots; lines very obscure; the inner nearly vertical, the outer excurved with slight pale edging; two 
black spots at end of cell; fringe concolorous; hindwing with the two lines just traceable; underside much paler, 
the hindwing whitish; the outer lines and fringes dark, also the cellspot; face and palpi brown; vertex, thorax 
and abdomen like wings. 1 £ from Biagi, Mambare River, 5000 ft. British New Guinea, March 1906 (A. S. Meek). 
Type in Tring Museum. 
M. rufipallens spec. nov. (24 a). Forewing white suffused with lilac pink in places, the whole thickly rufipallens. 
dusted with dark grey; a broad costal streak starting from inner margin near base remaining unsuffused; the 
costal edge darker; inner line near base, fine and dark, oblique outwards to subcostal vein, then oblicpie in¬ 
wards, limiting the costal streak; outer and subterminal lines whitish witli dark edges; the outer oblicpie from 
costa, then vertically waved to vein 4, then incurved, slightly indented on each fold; the subterminal excurved 
and dentate edged to anal angle; reniform stigma pale, touching the costal streak, with a black spot at 
lower end; terminal line crenulate, black, the extreme termen before it whiter; fringe whitish, pink tinged 
at middle; hindwing similar; the base pale; space between median and outer lines fulvous pink; underside 
greyish fuscous with a broad white outer band; the apex of forewing and base of hindwing whitish; face dark 
brown; head, thorax, and basal segment of dorsum whitish; dorsum pinkish lilac dusted with white; venter 
and legs white; the forelegs pinkish lilac. Haidana, Collingwood Bay, British New Guinea, April 1907 (A. S. 
Meek). Type in the Tring Museum. 
M. curvifascia spec. nov. (24 a). Forewing white, slightly dusted in median area with lilac scales; cunnfascia. 
the costal edge brownish lilac; terminal area dark lilac brown edged inwardly by a curved line from costa 
to anal angle, the space before it broadly white; a small dark clot at lower end of cell; terminal line thick, 
purple; hind wing the same, but the terminal area greyer; underside white, with a lilac terminal border to each 
wing; face, vertex, and palpi lilac brown; thorax and abdomen lilac mixed with white. 1 <$ from the Kumasi 
River, British New Guinea, July 1907 (A. S. Meek). The lines of the hindwing are in exactly the same position 
as in M. rufipallens ; the type of rufipallens, a is almost perfect in condition, while that of the S curvi¬ 
fascia is worn; so that they may ultimately prove to be the same species. 
11. Genus : I*enisa Wan. 
Differs from both Enispa and Micraeschus in having the termen of both wings evenly curved. Type 
P. oblataria Walk. 
